The evil twin is a favorite device of storytellers — has been for generations — and the veteran bestselling author Scott Turow gives it fresh life in his new novel “Identical.” A state senator who’s running for Mayor of Kindle County has to deal with an identical twin brother who’s just out of prison, after doing 25 years for a murder he may or may not have actually committed.

In fact, as Turow’s story progresses, it’s less certain who really is the “evil” twin in this family.

Two young women — college dropouts, identical twins from Chicago — inherit a London apartment from their mother’s twin sister, in Audrey Niffenegger‘s novel “Her Fearful Symmetry.” That the apartment is adjacent to Highgate Cemetery is not a coincidence, as this is a ghost story, melded to a mystery and to a love story, complete with secrets and ghosts aplenty.

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